{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htk/htk18.htm","path":"tantra/htk/htk18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htk/htk18.htm","text":"Hymn to Kali, by Arthur Avalon (Sir John George Woodroffe), [1922]\nO K\u0100L\u012a, spouse of Giri\u015ba, 1 Thou art Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. 2 Thou art all. Thou art one and beneficent. 3 What can be said in praise of Thee, O Mother? Of Thy mercy show Thy favour towards me, helpless as I am. By Thy grace may I never be reborn. 4\nCOMMENTARY\n'K\u0101l\u012b'\nDispeller of the fear K\u0101la or Death.\n'Thou art Earth' (Dharitr\u012b k\u012bl\u0101langshachirapi sam\u012bropi gaganam)\nGupt\u0101r\u1e47ava-Tantra says, 'Thou art Earth, Thou art Water, Thou art Fire, Thou art the Air of the world, Thou art Ether, Thou art Mind as Manas, Aha\u1e41k\u0101ra, Mahat (Buddhi) and Thou art Prak\u1e5bti. Thou art also, Oh Mother, \u0100tm\u0101. Thou art the Supreme. Nothing is greater than Thee. Oh Dev\u012b of terrible form showing Thy teeth may my sins be forgiven me.' The Triput\u0101-Stotra also says, 'Thou art the \u0100dh\u0101ra-\u015aakti and the \u0100dh\u0101ra. Thou dost pervade the world and the world is in Thee.'\n'One' (Ek\u0101)\nWithout a second.\n'Beneficent' (Kaly\u0101n\u012b)\nBecause She grants Nirv\u0101\u1e47a Liberation to J\u012bvas.\n'Spouse of Girisha' (Giri\u015baraman\u012b)\nSpouse of \u015aiva. Or He who is in the Giri or K\u016bta is Giri\u015ba that is K\u016btastha-Brahman; His spouse or \u015aakti. Though changeless (Nirvik\u0101r\u0101) Thou dost appear as the twenty-four Tattvas, namely,\n[paragraph continues] Earth and the rest through Thy M\u0101y\u0101. The Dev\u012bs\u016bkta of the \u1e5ag-Veda says, 'Thou who art one and many, subtle and the Vik\u0101ras (gross things) and giveth birth to millions of universes.'\n'All' (Sakala\u1e41)\n\u015aruti says, 'Verily all this is Brahman '.\n'Helpless' (Agatika\u1e41)\nOn account of liability to rebirth despite S\u0101dhana.\n76:1 p. 77 The Lord who inhabits the mountain, whereas, Giri\u015ba is Lord thereof.\n76:2 Li\u1e45gapur\u0101\u1e47a says, Dev\u012b becomes matter' (K\u1e63etra). She is K\u1e63etrasvar\u016bp\u0101, that is, the field or matter which is known by the soul (K\u1e63etraj\u00f1a). See Lalit\u0101 Sahasran\u0101ma (fourth hundred) for the Brahman who creates the visible world Itself enters into it (Tat s\u1e5b\u1e63tv\u0101 t\u0101d ev\u0101nupr\u0101vi\u015bat.)\n76:3 Kaly\u0101\u1e47i. According to the Padma-Pur\u0101\u1e47a, Dev\u012b is worshipped as Kaly\u0101\u1e47i in the Malaya Mountain.\n76:4 Bhava\u1e41 anu na bh\u016by\u0101n mama januh, that is, liberated. The \u015ay\u0101m\u0101rahasya reads Bhava\u1e41 ananubh\u016by\u0101t, using bhava\u1e41 as meaning duhkha\u1e41 (pain), arising from bhava (the world) (K. B.).","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 14","type":"page"}